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Start your SAP Cloud Native journey with HCL
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Enterprise Software is going through a
rapid pace of change
SAP is no exception.
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Designing, developing and delivering applications on cloud architectures – what HCL means by “Cloud Native” – brings innovation, flexibility, resiliency, agility and speed, all at scale. It also means adopting new strategies, learning new languages, and choosing new tools or leveraging existing ones in new ways - a large order for already busy IT organizations.
But it’s a shift that needs to be undertaken if development teams want to deliver business value. SAP teams must learn to leverage Cloud Native skills and methodologies effectively to continue to drive ROI and deliver the innovative differentiators business wants.
SAP has made the move to Cloud Native as painless as possible with their SAP Cloud Platform (SCP), SAP’s platform for creating or extending applications and part of SAP’s integrated Business Technology Platform portfolio of services.
These platforms work alongside, and are supportive of, other innovation tools or cloud platforms. This allows both “Cloud First” and “SAP-first” development teams to leverage SAP’s rich functionality and built-in integrations for rapid, cost-effective application development. while keeping the SAP Digital Core clean from large custom code blocks.
HCL’s SAP Cloud Native Labs offerings have been designed to help businesses leverage these platforms and services and quickly realize benefit from Cloud Native approaches for SAP.
What Cloud Native is Changing
How we design applications
How we scale applications
How and where we innovate
How we build applications
How we run and support applications
The data we capture and use
What we do with the data
Co-existence with heritage
Skills & methods employedSAP teams must learn to leverage Cloud
Native skills and methodologies effectively to
continue to drive ROI and deliver the innovative
differentiators business wants.
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Why go SAP Cloud Native?Quite simply, because the benefits are real. Adopting Cloud Native approaches allows both SAP and non-SAP teams to consume and extend SAP’s existing and rich Business Process Repository easily. Implementing an enterprise-wide Cloud Native strategy that includes SAP can deliver tangible business benefits – even if you still have a large on-premise footprint – allowing you to drive further ROI from your SAP investments:
• Future application updates and upgrades become simpler and less costly
• Integration becomes seamless with SAP’s vast library of API’s
• New functionality can be added in an agile manor with minimal disruption
• Business process modernization with low to zero organizational change challenges
• Utilizing SAP effectively results in lower development costs & faster timelines
Maximizing the use of cloud capabilities, services and opportunities will help you retain a clean digital core to innovate on the “edge.” For enterprise SAP users, this is a key step towards enabling the “Intelligent Enterprise“ by giving business users real-time access to data and rich analytics to support informed decision making, and taking advantage of solutions such as AI, IoT and automation.
Even if you choose to remain on older SAP releases, you can still make use of the cloud platforms and newer development opportunities to drive further ROI on your existing SAP investments.
But how will you know which methodologies to use, when? How to define and implement a strategy that works for your organization? How can you start building and transferring applications to the cloud quickly?
HCL’S SAP CLOUD NATIVE LABS CAN HELP.
Adopting Cloud Native approaches allows
both SAP and non-SAP teams to leverage and
extend SAP’s existing, rich functionality easily
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Introducing HCL’s SAP Cloud Native LabsSAP chose HCL to be a key partner to help clients fast track the development of SAP cloud applications and proofs of concepts. In 2019, we co-launched the HCL SAP Cloud Native Labs in London - now expanded to include locations in Texas and Noida.
All Labs services can be accessed either in person or in an on-line digital format, making it easy for dispersed teams to learn and develop together, no matter where they are located.
Our SAP Cloud Native Labs are housed within HCL’s Cloud Native Labs, which leverages our industry-leading cloud capabilities to offer immersive training to help small to large enterprises undertake the cultural transformation necessary to adopt modern Cloud Native approaches to software development.
Explore. Enable. Extend.Whether your organization’s cloud strategy is still just a vision, or whether you are ready to build or re-platform apps, the HCL Cloud Native Labs can support your cloud ambitions. Our Explore – Enable – Extend services for SAP cover the entire Cloud Native journey, offering a curated set of services, solutions, tutorials, best practices, and more, all designed to spark inspiration and drive hands-on experiences.
Our Labs cover the entire SAP Cloud Native journey
Identify applications that would benefit
from taking advantage of direct
integration into surrounding SAP Cloud
Platform services while performing
a Refactor/Replatform to SAP Cloud
Platform – Cloud Foundry.
Create innovative new capabilities,
launch new apps and services
Engineer solutions based on AI/
ML, Analytics, automation etc.
Align ambition and vision with
reality. Select the right platform.
Validate the business case.
Prepare to begin Cloud Native
development
Acquire the skills to design, code and
operate Cloud Native applications.
EXPLORE – VISION & STRATEGY
ENABLE – SKILLS
EXTEND – MODERNIZE
EXTEND – INNOVATE
We know that realizing a new Cloud Native mindset will take time – and effort. To help you make the transition as quickly and easily as possible, we have made significant investment in our Lab’s associated SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) capabilities, bringing together HCL’s wider Cloud First team with experienced SCP developers and designers.
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We can help you unlock the value in Cloud Delivery
Maximise the use
of SCP
True Cloud Native
delivery
Agility of scale Innovation
• Supports any Cloud Platform (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.) consuming backend SAP data
• Deliver with flexible scaling and costing
• Cloud design, delivery and support options (i.e., larger scale, faster, more agile, and open solutions)
• Platform for Apps and services, standardizing delivery via Cloud Native
• Adopt and expand innovation on any Cloud Platform
• Transform business process using AI, ML, IoT
• Keep the digital core clean, innovate on the edge
• Quickly deliver application extensions
• Increase user productivity
• Exposes business data to Cloud Applications and services
• Loose, de-coupled and self contained delivery, able to plug in best of breed systems and solutions
• Faster response to demands, more frequent deployment – not tied to backend constraints
• Smaller yet empowered delivery teams, able to quickly respond to demands and opportunities
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Workshops and Services for SAP We offer a comprehensive portfolio of Cloud Native services, covering strategy through to operations:
EXPLORE ENABLE EXTEND OPERATE
Introduction to Cloud Native for SAP
Initial use of SCP for your specific application and use cases
New Solution Delivery, Application Transformation, Innovation
DevOps & Toolchains
Cloud Native Economics
Value Guides to leverage SAP usage
Extend SCP use for App Tx, Re-factoring, Extensibility and Innovation
1 Day Cloud Native Workshop
PoC
Others
Start the Cloud Native Journey via hands-on use and assess your own strategic position
SAP Cloud Kickstarter
Get the insight needed to develop your own cloud strategy
SAP Cloud Strategy
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Explore Enable Extend
Introduction to Cloud Native for SAPYour journey starts with the essentials
1 Day Workshop, online or in-Labs
Recommended for senior business, IT leaders and project managers
For busy professionals, keeping pace with changes while still delivering business as usual services can be tough. We’ve designed this workshop to quickly give you the tools and information needed to start visioning your organization’s Cloud Native journey.
Topics include
• What “Cloud Native“ means
• Understanding SAP’s Cloud Native strategy
• Why you need a Cloud Native strategy
• Opportunities/ challenges specific to SAP clients
• Building a business case - Introduction to estimating, costing, scoping
The workshop also includes time to discuss how Cloud Native might impact your own organization, an can help provide you with a high-level view of potential opportunities and constraints on change
Participants will receive a set of tools to support their next steps, including slides, recorded demos, an ROI template, Cookbooks & a “Getting Started” pack.
DELIVERABLES
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To deliver business value in the new Cloud Native world, SAP teams must be able to support fast initial builds, continuous improvements and rapid cycles of deployments. This will require a wholesale change to ways of working – new team structures, new tools, new approaches, new design thinking.
Our hands-on Kickstarter is designed for rapid impact, helping teams maximize their investments in SAP cloud technologies – letting you experience the benefits of utilizing the open initiatives and services associated with Cloud Native approaches.
Explore the art of the possible for your organization:
• Deep dive into Cloud Native methods, procedures & technology
• Scope your organization’s as-is /to-be gap
• Understand organizational impacts, training & role needs
• Learn how to build, change & deploy Cloud Native apps
• Experience Jira, pair coding, Agile frameworks & selected SCP services
A plan/roadmap for how to achieve a transformation in the context of your own organization
DELIVERABLESSAP Cloud KickstarterRoll-up your sleeves and start your own Cloud Native transformation
Planning, scoping and hands-on coaching sessions
Recommended for senior project managers/architects/developers, preferably with some knowledge of cloud technologies
Explore Enable Extend
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SAP Cloud StrategyThe insight you need to develop an actionable cloud strategy
Strategy consulting & workshop package
Recommended for Senior Business and IT leadership
Adopting a Cloud Native strategy is now a question of when — and not if. Implementing an enterprise-wide cloud strategy will likely mean fundamentally changing your target operating model. Leveraging our experience across Cloud technologies, our strategy consulting team will help you to define a strategy that works for your organization and is aligned to SAP’s product roadmap.
Our Cloud Strategy team will :
• Identify where you are on your cloud journey
• Detail the opportunities and constraints you may encounter
• Give the analysis needed to inform your business case & identify benefits
• Contextualize our analysis & recommendations within your strategy and SAP’s roadmap
• Present our recommendations in a one-day workshop
We will provide detailed slides to facilitate future discussions and provide a supporting Cloud Native Strategy for SAP Cloud Platform “SCP” template & example SCP Patterns. Our consultants will conduct interviews and online surveys to understand your organization’s cloud native position and business needs so we can tailor the Strategy workshop to your own business needs.
DELIVERABLES
Explore Enable Extend
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POCExplore the impact of adopting Cloud Native by building a POC
Partner with experienced HCL cloud specialists to demonstrate your PoC
Recommended for: Budget holders/ business sponsors/IT leaders
Are you ready to develop your first SAP cloud applications — but want help developing your initial Proof of Concept? We offer two ways for you to leverage our knowledge and skills, ensuring your PoC delivers what you need.
• Option 1: Partner with HCL to jointly work on design, then let HCL make this SAP Cloud Platform ready, add Cloud Native features and return back to you for joint testing and review
• Option 2: Your team will work fully alongside HCL to build a PoC. This option provides the chance for your team to receive more education and hands-on training from our Cloud experts
You choose the topic and depending on the option chosen, HCL will supply your team with Agile stories/tasks, App(s), and the use of some core SCP Pattern(s)
DELIVERABLES
Explore Enable Extend
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Tailored Offerings As part of the SAP Cloud Kickstarter and PoC offerings, HCL will work with you to understand what key SAP Cloud Platform components are of most interest and will provide the largest return on investments.
Once the specific platform components are identified, HCL will tailor the SAP Cloud Kickstarter and PoC work packages to focus on delivering the desired outcomes.
With the PoC work package offering, HCL provides a layered approach for customers to be able to take advantages of more mature services then branching down into services that are new to the SCP platform stack.
Other Offerings HCL also provides additional supporting SCP products and offerings, including:
Advisory Services Our strategy and design professionals can advise on your strategic direction or project delivery
Professional Services Training, enablement and cultural transformation to guide your SCP journey. We offer a complete workforce transformation program to select, qualify, educate, coach and certify your technical community
Cloud Native Economics We can help deliver a business case to justify investment in SCP, including an assessment of your application portfolio and migration costs, and an accurate calculation of operational, infra, and licensing costs
Application Transformation (AppTx) Migrate, replatform and refactor solutions to become Cloud Native running on SCP. Move any Application to the Cloud with potential re-factoring based on business and technical needs. We provide AppTx services for SAP heritage Apps or In-App extensions to SCP with necessary re-work/re-design
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SAP Cloud KickstarterStart your own Cloud Native transformation with
coaching/ planning and hands-on experience.
PoCPartner with experienced HCL cloud specialists
to demonstrate your PoC
Analytics Mobile Integration Runtimes & Containers
SAP Analytics Cloud
Mobility Cloud Integration
SAP Intelligent RPA
SAP PredictiveService
SAP LeonardoMachine Learning
Foundation
ConversationalAI
iOS SDK SAP HANA HyperledgerFabric
Custom App
Re-platform
Refactor
Redesign
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About HCL’s Cloud Native LabsHCL’s Cloud Native Labs offer cloud strategy planning, application transformation, cloud-native cultural transformation, proof of concept building, and next-generation cloud native software development services from our locations in London, Texas and Noida
About HCL’s SAP Practice HCL’s global SAP practice has been leading benefits-driven business transformation globally for the last 25+ years. Building on our strong legacy of SAP innovation, our 9,000+ SAP consulting strength - combined with HCL’s leading in-house Engineering Services, IoT Works and Digital and Analytics practices – mean that HCL is positioned to lead digital transformation across the complete portfolio of new SAP Digital technologies.
If you want to find out more, please contact us at the following email address:[email protected]
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